Quotes About Communication

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

I don't get into politics. I know [Donald] Trump, but I don't follow that. That's just an aside for him when he has nothing else to say. He never involved me in any of that stuff.

I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.